sin of lumen

It was a common air combat scene, with incendiary bombs and scorched smoke, and rows of aircraft all over the sky. They collided and bit each other, but the flames of war disappeared in an instant. At the penultimate 6 minutes, the video was still playing, but the screen was completely blurred. blank.

Lu Ting was stunned: "The nuclear bomb... exploded?"

"En." Dun Mochi looked at the bright white area with fascination. It was a luminous flux of tens of billions of lumens, but the lens could only reflect such a situation in a large and comprehensive way.It must be because of too much energy, it was also burnt out of order, the field of vision turned from all white to all black after a while, the screen reflected Lu Ting's face, the sound of the firefight just now also turned into silence in an instant, and the room full of Among the high-frequency sound waves emitted by the computer, all he could hear in the video was the indication of instrument work, the screeching of air friction, and extremely heavy breathing.

It turned out that the camera was installed inside the main control room.

"Before the nuclear explosion, the ship was at a distance of 5.6 kilometers from the coastal defense line." Deng Mochi called up various parameters in the flight data recorder and placed the window next to the video. Retreat, but speed up."

"After 77 seconds, we reached a distance of 1.2 kilometers from the coastline." Lu Ting murmured.He also read the data carefully, squinting his eyes.It is hard to imagine the specific situation within 1 minute after the explosion of an atomic bomb. The wind speed, drag, lift, and thrust in extreme environments are all recorded in these black boxes. Of course, the flight attitude, trajectory, speed, acceleration, etc. can also pass through the 300 Multiple record values ​​restored, but what about the others?

Its companions, enemies, and cities not far away... were wiped out in an instant?

It is the only one left in the world.

"The hardware status is basically normal. It should be the driver's eyesight problem." Deng Mochi seemed to be flipping through a familiar book with such a large number of parameters. He quickly positioned and highlighted a few data, "No. 78 Between seconds and 137 seconds, the direction of movement of the spacecraft was chaotic, on the verge of stalling, and the adjustment was basically ineffective, and the emergency autopilot was activated at 138 seconds."

Lu Ting nodded slowly, indicating that he understood. He held down Deng Mochi's hand on the keyboard and fixed the interface at the current position. "Then it started to return, and kept increasing its speed."

"In the 192nd second, he fell into the sea." He stared at the route map again, and calculated, "It is more than 2 meters away from the k98-3000 port."

"It's a tsunami."

"The tsunami washed it up later?"

"In the rainy season of 2093, the Saxon River broke its embankment, and tsunami and floods occurred concurrently, from July to October." Deng Mochi sat down in the driver's seat and looked up at Lu Ting, "You may not remember."

Indeed, Lu Ting had no impression.He floats in the air every day, and the flood that washes over the entire downstream area may be just a nasty rain outside the window that has not cleared for several months to him who is only 13 years old.

Anyway, he was in a state of needing regular psychological counseling at that time, and he didn't go out very much.

"I can basically imagine it, the last few minutes of LastShadow," Lu Ting was a little embarrassed, because he had never suffered in his life, he didn't want to be a person who didn't want to stand up and talk, so he tried to think about the current thing, " But I don't understand why the driver is rushing towards the explosion point? Shouldn't he avoid it?"

"Overestimating the performance of the aircraft." Deng Mochi said, opening a series of parameters to prove that there is indeed a chance of escape.

"That is to say, he thought that this ship could completely protect him, but as the distance shortened, his eyes were still burned out, and other body functions may also have problems, so he couldn't beat him 100%," Lu Ting thought. Leaning on the edge of the console, "Then he ran as far as he could and plunged into the sea, sacrificed, it must be to hide himself! He knows that the Federation has always wanted his technology..."

"Maybe." Deng Mochi didn't finish the sentence, but there seemed to be some approval in his tone, and his gaze was quite focused, which made Lu Ting feel that he was not so stupid.He slid down the console, away from the dry bones, and sat directly on Deng Mochi's lap, "Boss, you are very familiar with those data!"

"..."

Seeing that he was silent, Lu Ting not only didn't go down, but also wrapped his arms loosely around his shoulders, "Really, if you didn't guide me, I'd have to turn around all day to understand a little bit."

Deng Mochi still looked a little awkward. Although he was expressionless, he refused to meet Lu Ting's gaze, so he stared at the neckline in front of him closely. The pendant could not be seen from the necklace, only the thin black leather rope hanging on it. On a clean neck, "because I've seen it hundreds of times and thousands of hours," he said.

"...Then you can definitely memorize it."

"I also dreamed about it," Dun Mochi lowered his head, "192 seconds, this process happened to me. Sometimes I dreamed that the operation failed and I was falling."

this process?Being bombarded by an atomic bomb and then falling into the sea is scary enough even if it takes less than 4 minutes. It would be too uncomfortable to have a dream every now and then. Thinking about these things, do you think about it every day and dream about it at night?"

Deng Mochi's answer came quickly and was very short: "I don't know."

Lu Ting held his face in his hands, frowning seriously: "Then what do you mean by connecting?"

Deng Mochi was finally willing to look at him, his cheeks were puffed up slightly, his eyelashes flickered twice, and he said, "It's a weak, subjective feeling."

This is still very general, but there are so many derivatives of the word "connection", Lu Ting blurted out: "Attraction? Sense of belonging? Familiarity?"

Deng Mochi took those two hands down, and the bangs on his forehead were brushed away again. He raised his eyes and looked straight at Lu Ting with all his attention: "I was very scared when I found this ship at the port."

Lu Ting was stunned.Deng Mochi would be afraid.He thought about it, but it was the first time he heard this person mention it himself.

"Then I left, walked halfway, and turned back. Its existence cannot be erased. At that time, I just thought that I must open it and go in. Even if I go in, I will die," Deng Mochi said again. The words are very solid, "There are not many changes now. I will feel fear when I sit here, but I have to come back again and again. I don't need to convince myself. When I watch the video, I can't think of anything. "

Lu Ting was silent for a while.He clearly felt the opening of a heart. Dun Mochi said so much for the first time, even though he was still at a loss, he was willing to share it and be alone with him.Is it true that no matter how tough people are, there will be times when they are trapped and need help?is that so?

He straightened those two eyebrows, even if they were furrowed, he restrained himself, just like their owner.Afraid of making people feel paralyzed, he consciously got off Deng Mochi's lap, stood aside, and looked around the master control room, as if every color block formed in his eyes was composed of suspicious points.Somehow, the more he thought about it, the more his mind was filled with the so-called zeroth element, those brought down from the ruins of Mars, those that Lu Zhi and Shu Rui didn't explain clearly to him, and the ones that may be in Deng Mochi's body. The ones that are carried in excess.

They appeared in my ears not long ago, and became the first cloud of doubts that lingered on Lu Ting. They were as mysterious as this phantom, and at the same time, they were full of uncontrollable power.

He also seemed to have some kind of weak subjective feeling, but it was also difficult to describe, and it fell apart as soon as he grabbed it.

"So...you want to repair this spaceship and restore its functions," Lu Ting calmed down for a while, and said softly, "It's similar to an instinct that you discovered and studied it for so long."

But Deng Mochi shook his head, stood up and turned off the console, and put on the flashlight again: "There is another place, I will take you there."

"Wait a minute." Lu Ting took out a few sealed bags from his bag, bowed deeply to the dead bones on the co-pilot, put on his gloves and started sampling directly.From clothes to skin to hair, and a few bones, he took a small amount and packed them neatly in bags. He also searched through every pocket, and actually took out a piece of paper from the hidden trouser pocket above the military boots. Documents, and something like a disk.

The disk has been oxidized and rusted, and the plastic part is also blistered. The certificate is in good condition. The black ring of the fire sword on the back is as clear as new. Although the front is damaged, at least the name, photo, and date of birth can be seen clearly.

It was a black-haired man in neat military uniform, with an unremarkable face, but he smiled kindly. He was born in 2049, and on the day of his death in 2076, he was only 27 years old.

Concentrated in such a short age, rough or beautiful, I don't know what kind of life it is.

Lu Ting stuffed the bag containing these two things into Deng Mochi's hand. Seeing the man's slightly surprised expression, he put on a smile on his face: "Don't forget that I am a policeman."

"I didn't think about it."

"Hey, there is a specialization in surgery, who knows where there is useful information," Lu Ting stuffed the rest of the sealed bags back into his satchel, "I'll take these back for testing, and I'll leave the disk repair to you, boss."

"I'll try my best." Deng Mochi lowered his eyes, and while leading him to the main control room, he carefully observed the pouch in his palm.

"We are definitely the first people in the world to know what his name is and what he looks like. I won't tell anyone. From then on, only we will know." Lu Ting walked briskly, "This buddy is too mysterious. After more than 20 years It was an absolute taboo keyword before, and his troops disappeared completely, and now not many people remember him."

"He is a rebel." Deng Mochi said.

"That's right." Lu Ting was still looking around, even though he could only see clearly the way ahead that Deng Mochi showed him with the flashlight.His professional habits are indeed deeply ingrained.

"Your... family," Dun Mochi hesitated, "I thought you would be disgusted."

"Indeed, I'm a vested interest right now, and that's right, an exploiter. It stands to reason that these great revolutionaries should be tabooed the most," Lu Ting thought for a while, and then said, "But for my dad and his staff I have my own judgment on those actions, and even I think he is too much, so how can there be no people who want to rebel? We must accept this reality."

"You accepted."

"Yes, I accept," Lu Ting sneezed. Since the spacecraft is basically in a dormant state, the temperature on the sea floor is lower than he imagined. "Since ancient times, whoever has been overthrown will always have a new superior. He didn't just win a battle, and the owner of this spaceship didn't just lose a battle. He was unprepared, and won't be able to move if he wins. The same is true for the new system. But if my dad is overthrown , my family may be killed, but if this can lead to a better and newer system, whether people or animals on the earth can die later, or live a little happier, I don’t think I will die. Unfortunately, it only represents myself. Anyway, I have lived for more than ten years and have been useless, only spending money, messing around, and consuming resources."

Dun Mochi was silent for a moment, until he slowed down, they entered the lower midship and came to the end of this passage, "It's not like this." He said.

"Aren't I useless?" Lu Ting took his arm, leaned on it, and said sullenly: "My dad and my elder brother love to say that I'm useless. My sister always wants me to stay honest and not mess with you." Trouble, anyway, there is everything in Aldebaran, so it’s best not to do anything else.”

"If you die, you are not insignificant." Deng Mochi looked sideways at him.

"Then will you be reluctant? Will you be sad?" Lu Ting smiled suddenly, as if he was very happy, rubbed the tip of his nose affectionately on Deng Mochi's ear, and the rust smell suddenly became stronger, "I know, then I Don't die, I will be with the boss for 100 years."

"I will avenge you." After Dun Mochi said this, he bit the flashlight horizontally in his mouth. Lu Ting let go of him, and saw a hidden low door appearing on the side of the passage wall, only half a person tall. Chi squatted down to fiddle with it—it turned out that there was a lock hanging on it, the oldest iron padlock, Dun Mochi inserted the key, and with a click, it unscrewed.

When he got up, the flashlight flickered, "It's a secret room, I discovered it three years ago." He staggered his body and let Lu Ting go first.

"This kind of lock...is there in the first place?"

"I tied it, remind myself not to waste too much time in it."

Lu Ting's curiosity had already rushed to his forehead, he said "oh", bent down and knocked his head, so he had to bend even lower, and crawled in with his buttocks stuck out.The space inside seemed to be quite spacious. He touched around with his eyes darkened, but he stood up and looked back when he didn't come across anything that made him bump his head again.Deng Mochi also got in behind him, put the flashlight on the ground, and graciously helped him find the switch to turn on the light in the room.

As for how he got into it just now, and whether he was as embarrassed as himself - Lu Ting suspected that the reason why this man let himself advance so gentlemanly was because he didn't want to be seen.

Immediately, he began to think that Deng Mochi was cute again, so he quickly stopped these wanderings and began to observe the indoor environment.The shape of the room was very irregular, like a piece of leftover material that could not be used, and indeed there was no use for it, because the room was empty, with nothing but a ceiling lamp and six zigzag walls.

But there is still a sentence written on the wall, no, it is similar to the wall made of metal, the letters should be electroplated, one line is bright red, neat Caslon font, two lines are listed:

When Lucifer appeared inthedawn,

Idreamed avividdream.

"When Lucifer appeared at dawn, I had a vivid dream?" Lu Ting translated directly, "It can't be that buddy's motto, right? I meditate and reflect on it every day, staring at this sentence. It doesn't look like it, it doesn't seem to be meaningful enough. philosophy."

"It should be Venus. Venus and Lucifer are both its nicknames, and it is easiest to observe before sunrise," Dun Mochi said, "I have seen this sentence before I discovered this ship."

"what?"

"After my mother died of dystocia, there was a fire at home, and I didn't leave anything behind, and I don't remember anything," Deng Mochi stared at the silver-gray wall, "but then the pawnshop owner told me that my mother left I bought a piece of clothing there, I can redeem it, and I will redeem it."

He said it lightly, but Lu Ting was thinking about how much effort Deng Mochi had spent in redeeming that dress at a poor age and in a poor environment.The memories of before the age of ten have disappeared strangely, and there is no trace of his mother. He retrieved a piece of cloth for himself.

"It's a linen shirt, with this sentence embroidered on the back, also in scarlet letters," Deng Mochi said quietly, "Is it a slogan?"

Lu Ting also stared at those characters, inexplicably, those red colors seemed to be able to attract his thoughts: "What do you think?"

Deng Mochi turned his eyes back to Lu Ting's face: "I think this is a sentence that can make people feel sad. It is very similar to you saying that it doesn't matter if you die."

Lu Ting took a deep breath, and said simply: "I think this ship...it belongs to you. I mean no matter what fate and coincidence, it stayed there, waiting, and by now, it should be yours of."

Deng Mochi seemed to be pondering the meaning of these words.

Lu Ting's five fingers have been clenched tightly. Maybe he can't explain what he is doing, or even understand any thoughts, but he can be sure that this is what he thinks is correct.If there were answers to the previous questions, and if Deng Mochi was also the one who needed help, then he must be the first hand extended.

"It has to become good, it has to fly, it should be great...it's something only you can do, if you do it, let's go back and look at these things we don't understand...we have to have a sense of it itself Learn more." After a pause, Lu Ting said again, "This is the flagship. I heard that the Federation could not find it, but found many crashed battleships and frigates, and some wreckage left after the nuclear explosion , The parts worthy of reference have also been screened out, maybe there is something in common. I also know the group of people who are in charge of this matter, and in a few days, my elder brother will hold a wedding, and they will definitely go. "

"Well, Mr. Deng, Mr. Deng," he stammered, his expression a little solemn, and then suddenly playful, he put Deng Mochi's hand in his palm, and folded the other hand on the back of his hand, "I Now I officially invite you, as my male companion, to attend the most boring but most expensive wedding at the end of this century."